Juridical and Functional Informality: From Theory to Practical Policy

Gibson, Bill; Flaherty, Diane

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“…Sektor informal memiliki beragam karakteristik, antara lain tidak membayar pajak, persisten (Gibson & Flaherty, 2016), fleksibel (Soebyakto & Armansyah, 2016;Armansyah & Aryaningrum, 2017), adaptif (Pitoyo, 1999), pendidikan dan keterampilan rendah (Ramdan, 2012;Armansyah & Taufik, 2018), serta miskin (Chen & Vanek, 2013). Sektor informal menjadi strategi bertahan hidup yang populer bagi pencari kerja yang belum bisa beradaptasi dengan globalisasi, gagal memasuki lapangan kerja formal, kalah bersaing atau terkena PHK (Canclini, 2018).…”

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Formalisasi sektor informal: Proses, faktor pengaruh, dan dampak pada pelaku usaha sektor informal di Kota Palembang

Armansyah

Sukamdi

2021

JKI

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This study aims to examine the process of formalizing informal sector through an analysis of characteristics of informal and formal sectors, factors affecting the formalization process, and its impact on informal sector actors in Palembang City. This study combines quantitative and qualitative methods with sequential explanatory designs. Quantitative data collection are conducted through survey, while qualitative data are gathered through in-depth interviews. Informants for this study are informal business actor who stayed in Palembang and have run their business for at least 1 year. Quantitative data analysis using Chi-square test and descriptive frequencies, while qualitative data analysis uses three stages, namely, reduction, display, and conclusion. The formalization process can be classified into three stages, namely the informal, transition, and formal stages. Most informal business actors in Palembang are still at the informal stage. The process of formalizing the informal sector in Palembang does not occur systematically, but rather with random or up and down patterns. The results also shows that the process of formalization of the informal sector is largely based on the initiative of business actors. In addition, informal businesses that have undergone a formalization process tend to have better income and business security.

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Formalisasi sektor informal: Proses, faktor pengaruh, dan dampak pada pelaku usaha sektor informal di Kota Palembang

Armansyah

Sukamdi

2021

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“…Access to financial services is one of the crucial determinants of the growth and performance of any enterprise (Blattman, Green, Jamison, Lehmann & Annan, 2016). Small businesses face capital constraints (Gibson & Flaherty, 2016). A review of the literature shows that informal enterprises rarely obtain any credit from formal financial institutions (FFIs) (Farazi, 2014).…”

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Impacts of Financial Access of Urban Informal Enterprises: Evidence from Assam of Northeast India

BARUAH¹

2021

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Despite the presence of the informal sector in developing countries around the globe as a source of livelihood for a disproportionately large number of households, a myriad of problems often held back the enterprises in the sector. Among these problems, meagre access to financial services is the most disabling, as access to other enabling conditions often hinges on access to finance. This paper examines, drawing inputs from a sample survey, the issues related to the financial accessibility of the urban informal enterprises in Assam. Furthermore, the paper looks at the economic contributions of these enterprises in terms of gross value added, using a customized financial access index and logistic and linear regressions. Analysis shows that enterprises with registration have better access to financial services. The economic contribution of the sample enterprises is not significantly related to the extent of their access to financial services.

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“…On a national level, recent Argentinian public statistics 1 adopted reduced measurement, such as the number of unregistered jobs (Bertranou and Casanova, 2014). 2 Although this empirical measurement is directly observable, it refers to “juridical” rather than “functional” informality, the former being defined largely as a matter of choice and the latter, as being related to labor market dynamics (Gibson and Flaherty, 2016). Extending the usual statistical approach, Beccaria and Groisman (2008) desegregate and measure different positions of informality in employment.…”

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“…In various national contexts, the absence or flexibility of status, contracts, job duration, working hours, and social security can also serve as new resources and opportunities in a context of greater mobility (Longo et al, 2014; Vultur, 2010). Indeed, some workers “may prefer the flexibility, hours or absence of surveillance and intrusion that the informal sector sometimes offers” (Gibson and Flaherty, 2016: 437). In their study on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, Bosch and Maloney (2007) point out that the informal sector seems to be a stepping-stone between the functional and formal sectors in the labor market, to use Gibson and Flaherty’s terms (2016).…”

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Transcending dichotomies: Informal work, young people and the state in Argentina

Longo

2020

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Since the beginning of modern labor markets, formal and informal activities have coexisted alongside each other. However, most of the traditional approaches to informality are not fully able to explain the multiple forms by which this phenomenon manifests itself today in certain contexts. Informality in Latin American societies, particularly in Argentina, is heuristically revelatory for illustrating the need for a more complex definition and less rigid theoretical classifications. The main purpose of this article is to contribute to an empirical analysis about informality by addressing two points. First, the article provides a better understanding of the heterogeneous nature of informality—“involuntary” or “voluntary” informal work, “half-formal/half-informal” work—in the field of youth employment. Second, in connection with debates about the sources of informality, the article explores the hypothesis of the existence of state-created informality. The article illustrates these points at different levels: youth careers, employers’ recruitment strategies, and states policies. This perspective seems useful for identifying the actors involved, acknowledging the blurry boundaries between diverse informal situations, and understanding actors’ uses of them. The points are illustrated by evidence from a qualitative and longitudinal study on youth employment careers in Argentina. The article concludes with a discussion about some key issues of informality, such as legality, regulation and agency.

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Juridical and Functional Informality: From Theory to Practical Policy

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Formalisasi sektor informal: Proses, faktor pengaruh, dan dampak pada pelaku usaha sektor informal di Kota Palembang

Formalisasi sektor informal: Proses, faktor pengaruh, dan dampak pada pelaku usaha sektor informal di Kota Palembang

Impacts of Financial Access of Urban Informal Enterprises: Evidence from Assam of Northeast India

Transcending dichotomies: Informal work, young people and the state in Argentina

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